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Creflo Dollar | Creflo Dollar - How To Have Hope When It's Hard | February 24, 2025
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- Taffi dollar: this morning i wanna talk about
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- "hope when it's hard."
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- Hope when it's hard.
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- We're gonna look at david's life.
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- We're gonna look at challenges
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- That he was able to overcome and how he was able
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- To overcome them.
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- You know, as a result of us coming out of this pandemic,
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- It's so important for us to know what we're supposed to be doing.
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- You know, we are living in a new normal.
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- We're living in a new dispensation that we've never
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- Experienced before, the things that are taking place.
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- So we've got to know how to navigate.
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- We've gotta know how to move, how to make progress, and i
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- Believe that there's a way to do it.
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- But we have to begin to learn from those under the old
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- Covenant, under the old testament as the bible says, and
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- As a result of us learning from them that we can know how to
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- Appropriate it in our lives.
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- And so that's what the purpose of looking back at some of the
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- Patriarchs and matriarchs from times past, because we can look
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- At how they were able to move forward, how they were able to
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- Deal with opposition, how they were able to experience victory
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- In spite of the challenges that they dealt with.
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- And so we know that there's so much hopelessness
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- In the world today.
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- There's so many things that could cause us to be in a place
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- Of negativity, a place of despair, depression.
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- As a result of the pandemic, so many people have gone
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- On to be with the lord and so many things are different.
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- So many things have changed.
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- But you know what, thank god for him being the same yesterday,
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- Today, and forever.
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- So he is that constant presence in our lives.
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- He is that consistent force that enables us to be able to trust
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- In him because he has not changed.
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- Although the world has changed and things are changing, maybe
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- Some of your worlds have changed.
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- Maybe you had loved ones, maybe you had things that were lost as
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- A result of the pandemic.
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- Businesses were lost, some people lost relationships, a lot
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- Of marriages ended in divorce, and so there are a lot of
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- Things, if we're cognizant of, that have changed.
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- And so we want to look at how to have hope when it's hard.
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- How to have hope when it's hard.
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- Now, let's look in 1 samuel chapter 17, and we're gonna look
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- At david when he faced a hard situation.
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- Because i believe that many of you are dealing with difficult
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- Situations, things that you don't quite know how to move
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- Forward in, but thank god that he provides us with answers.
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- He gives us solutions.
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- He doesn't leave us stranded, he doesn't leave us in a place
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- Where we're worse off than where we were before.
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- He enables us to get into a place where we can have strength
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- To move forward, and that's what this moment is about.
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- That is what this season is about.
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- Knowin' how to move forward when it's difficult, when it's hard.
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- When you've been in a place for so long, then all of a sudden
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- The rug just got snatched from up under you.
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- And you say, "god, what is this?"
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- And then begin to allow him to speak into our lives.
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- And so, that's what david was dealing with because david was a
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- Man who had a lot of experiences prior to facing goliath, and so,
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- You know, goliath was a big giant.
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- He was a big guy.
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- And so, many times in our lives when we're dealing with things,
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- These are things that seem bigger than life.
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- Because they're unfamiliar, things that we're unaccustomed
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- To, perhaps it may be a new thing, or perhaps it may have
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- Been something that's kinda lingered from
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- Generation to generation.
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- How many you know the devil will begin to visit generations to
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- Generations to cause that same thing to exist and to be
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- Perpetual.
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- And so in 1 samuel chapter 17, we're gonna look at this story
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- Here of david and goliath.
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- One that i know you probably are familiar with
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- And have heard about in times past, sunday school,
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- One of those bible lessons where he faced the giant.
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- And we're going to face some giants in our life if we're not
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- Already facing them right now.
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- And so, verse 12 of 1 samuel chapter 17, i'm gonna read from
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- The new living translation, if you wanna read along with me.
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- Because david had to make the decision based on what was going
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- On with saul's advice on whether he was going to do what saul
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- Wanted him to do or what he was going to do based on what was in
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- His heart.
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- And so, there were many who were afraid of goliath, his older
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- Brothers, the armies.
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- They were intimidated.
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- The bible talks about how goliath would strut around, and
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- As a result of him strutting around, that it would put fear
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- In the army and fear in people who saw him.
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- And so, you know, there's that opportunity to either receive
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- Fear and shrink back like so many had done in david's
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- Scenario, or to begin to do what david did.
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- So he says in verse 12, "now david was the son of a man named
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- Jesse, an ephrathite from bethlehem in the land of judah.
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- Jesse was an old man at that time, and he had--"
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- How many sons?
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- "--eight sons.
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- Jesse's three oldest sons--eliab, abinadab, and
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- Shimea--had already joined saul's army
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- To fight the philistines."
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- Some say philistines, some say the philistines, but today we're
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- Just gonna say philistines.
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- "david was the youngest son.
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- David's three older brothers stayed with saul's army, but
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- David went back and forth so he could help his father with the
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- Sheep in bethlehem.
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- For forty days, every morning and evening, the philistine
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- Champion strutted in front of the israelite army."
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- How many you know that is the devil?
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- And that's what the devil will do, will cause you to try to
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- Fixate on him and on his plan.
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- Sickness, maybe to cause that sickness to just be right in
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- Front of you and strutting back and forth.
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- Or, you know, maybe a broken relationship,
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- Estranged situation.
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- The enemy wants to hold that up, to cause it to be magnified in
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- Our hearts, to be magnified in our lives, to cause us to become
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- Hopeless, and to become obsessed with that very thing.
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- And so, that's what goliath was doing
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- When he was strutting back and forth.
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- How many you know he was trying to get their attention.
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- And the enemy wants your attention this morning.
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- He wants you to think that there is no hope.
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- He wants you to throw in the towel, and he wants you to begin
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- To think that there is no way that you can come out of that
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- Situation.
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- So it says, "for forty days, twice a day, morning and
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- Evening, the philistine giant strutted in front of the
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- Israelite army.
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- So you've gotta realize that there is an enemy loose and he
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- Wants to cause you to think inferior thoughts and to think
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- That you are inadequate and that god's word cannot work, and
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- There is no way that anybody can come out of this situation.
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- None of your relatives have been able to come outta this
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- Situation, nobody else that you know of, and so as a result, he
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- Did this for forty days.
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- Not just one day in the morning.
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- I'm tellin' you morning and evening, you hear me?
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- How many you know there is a strategy that the enemy was
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- Tryin' to do at that time?
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- And so it says here in verse 17, "and one day jesse said to
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- David, 'take this basket of roasted grain and these ten
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- Loaves of bread to your brothers.
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- And give these ten cuts of cheese to their captain.
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- See how your brothers are getting along, and bring me back
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- A letter from them.
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- David's brothers were with saul and the israelite army at the
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- Valley of elah, fighting against the philistines.
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- So david left the sheep with another shepherd and set out
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- Early the next morning.
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- He arrived at the outskirts of the camp just as the israelite
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- Army was leaving for the battlefield with shouts
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- And battle cries."
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- Let's skip down to, well we'll just keep goin'.
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- "soon the israelite and the philistine forces stood facing
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- Each other, army against army.
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- David," verse 22, "left his things with the keeper of the
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- Supplies and hurried out to the ranks to greet his brothers.
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- And as he was talking with them, he saw goliath, the champion
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- From gath, come out from the philistine ranks, shouting his
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- Challenge to the army of israel."
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- So not only was goliath walking around, strutting around morning
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- And evening for forty days, he was also shouting at them.
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- He was shouting at the army of israel.
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- And verse 24 says, "and as soon as the israelite army saw him,
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- They began to run away in fright."
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- And that's exactly what the enemy wants us to do, is to run
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- And hide in fear.
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- And that's what they did.
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- It says, "as soon as they saw the giant,
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- They began to run away."
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- Why? because he was so big.
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- Goliath is believed to be around nine feet tall.
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- His helmet alone was like over a hundred feet.
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- I mean, just humongous in terms of the comparison
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- Between he and the israelite army.
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- And so when they saw him, just in the physical,
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- They began to think about how impossible it seemed
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- That they could stand up against this enemy,
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- That they could stand up against this giant.
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- But you know what?
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- David had something else in his mind when he saw goliath.
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- And it says in verse 25, "'have you seen the giant?'
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- The men were asking.
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- 'he comes out each day to challenge israel.
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- And have you heard about the huge reward the king
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- Has offered to anyone who kills him?
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- The king will give him one of his daughters for a wife, and
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- His whole family will be exempted from paying taxes!'
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- David," in verse 26, "talked to some others standing
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- There to verify the report.
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- 'what will a man get for killing this philistine and putting
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- An end to his abuse of israel?'"
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- So when you begin to face your challenges
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- And your hardships and difficult situations in your life,
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- You've gotta begin to think about bringin'
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- An end to that thing.
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- 'cause you know what?
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- If you don't bring an end to it, it'll just continue on and on
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- And on.
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- It'll maybe go to your next generation, or it'll begin to
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- Cause an outbreak, or it'll be worse than what it was.
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- And so david had on his mind how i can end this thing.
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- And he says, "'what will a man get," he says, "in putting an
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- End to his abuse of israel?
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- Who is this pagan philistine anyway, that he is allowed to
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- Defy the armies of the living god?'"
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- David had the covenant on his mind.
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- He says, "who is this?
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- He's not in covenant.
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- He doesn't know god."
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- And so, it says, "david received the same reply as before.
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- 'what you've been hearing is true.
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- That is the reward for killing the giant.'
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- But when david's oldest brother, eliab, heard david
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- Talking to the men, he was angry."
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- He says, "'what are you doing around here anyway?'
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- They saw him as the little annoying brother, eliab,
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- 'david, what are you doing here?
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- Why are you here?
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- What about those few sheep you're supposed
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- To be taking care of?
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- I know about your pride and dishonesty.
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- You just want to see the battle!'"
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- David says in verse 28,
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- "'what have i done now?' david replied.
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- 'i was only asking a question!' he walked over to some of the
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- Others and asked them the same thing and received
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- The same answer.
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- Then david's question was reported to king saul, and the
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- King sent for him."
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- Look here in verse 32.
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- It says, "'don't worry about a thing,' david told saul.
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- 'i'll go fight this philistine.'"
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- Think about that.
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- All the older brothers, the eldest ones, the most
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- Experienced, the ones who were trained, the ones who had the
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- Knowledge, the equipment, the weapons to use, the artillery,
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- Just all the things that had been prepared, but it was david
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- Who chose to deal with the giant.
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- And so, there are things in these last days that god's gonna
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- Choose you to deal with that perhaps other people ran
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- And hid from.
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- Thank god for his wisdom.
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- Thank god for his grace. thank god for his anointing.
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- Thank god for his power, because i'm tellin' you, we're coming
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- Into a time where it's gonna require the supernatural
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- Assistance and the supernatural aid.
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- God's intervening and beginning to show to covenant people his
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- Ability in the situations in life.
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- And so, it was david who made up in his mind when he told saul,
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- He says, "i'll go. i will go."
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- He didn't run. he wasn't afraid.
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- He says, "i'll go." and then look at verse 33.
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- He says, "'don't be ridiculous!'
- 00:18:26.885 --> 00:18:28.887
- Saul replied. 'there's no way you can go against
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- This philistine, david!'"
- 00:18:34.793 --> 00:18:38.597
- He thought that david was ridiculous, but you know what?
- 00:18:38.597 --> 00:18:43.035
- David had experienced god's victory in his private battles,
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- So it gave him confidence in his public battles.
- 00:18:50.209 --> 00:18:55.180
- And so that's why it's so much more than just, you know,
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- Playing church and doing church.
- 00:18:59.751 --> 00:19:03.222
- This is about going home, being at home where you know how to
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- Win and you know what to do in your personal battles.
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- Because people will try and talk you out of standing against
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- Opposition.
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- Because they've not stood against opposition, they don't
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- Want you to stand either.
- 00:19:22.541 --> 00:19:26.211
- As far as they know, it's never been done.
- 00:19:26.211 --> 00:19:28.247
- That's just how it is.
- 00:19:28.247 --> 00:19:30.015
- That's just what happened.
- 00:19:30.015 --> 00:19:31.950
- But how many you know god has the final say-so.
- 00:19:31.950 --> 00:19:35.887
- Factor god in the situations in your life.
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- Welcome him in.
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- Invite him in.
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- Allow him in.
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- Let him intervene, and not base the decisions in our life based
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- On what someone else said.
- 00:19:50.335 --> 00:19:52.838
- Because they thought that what he chose to do was ridiculous
- 00:19:52.838 --> 00:19:57.309
- When he said, "i'll go."
- 00:19:57.309 --> 00:20:00.178
- "david, you don't know what you're doin'.
- 00:20:00.178 --> 00:20:03.415
- You've been out there.
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- You're just here to be nosey.
- 00:20:05.417 --> 00:20:07.019
- You're here to just watch.
- 00:20:07.019 --> 00:20:08.620
- You're not knowing anything about what it takes."
- 00:20:08.620 --> 00:20:13.125
- And he says, "i'll go."
- 00:20:13.125 --> 00:20:16.128
- And he says, "there's no way you can go against this philistine.
- 00:20:16.128 --> 00:20:22.267
- You are only a boy, and he has been in the army
- 00:20:22.267 --> 00:20:25.437
- Since he was a boy."
- 00:20:25.437 --> 00:20:30.642
- Even his youth was being addressed and attacked there
- 00:20:30.642 --> 00:20:34.613
- Because of his age, and people will base and surmise your
- 00:20:34.613 --> 00:20:41.386
- Ability and your victory on the age.
- 00:20:41.386 --> 00:20:48.293
- And how many you know god's not looking at any of those things.
- 00:20:48.293 --> 00:20:51.563
- God called a king who was ten years old.
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- I better not get into that.
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- God will use a donkey.
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- God will use a jackass.
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- God will use whatever he wants to use.
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- He's not limited by age.
- 00:21:06.912 --> 00:21:12.417
- It says in verse 34, "but david persisted.
- 00:21:12.417 --> 00:21:16.455
- 'i've been taking care of my brother--of my father's sheep.'"
- 00:21:16.455 --> 00:21:22.494
- He says, "'i've been taking care of my father's sheep.'"
- 00:21:22.494 --> 00:21:27.332
- He was a shepherd boy.
- 00:21:27.332 --> 00:21:29.101
- "'when a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock,
- 00:21:29.101 --> 00:21:33.138
- I go after it.'" that meant he wasn't afraid to go after
- 00:21:33.138 --> 00:21:41.880
- A bear or to go after a lion.
- 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:46.818
- That's somethin'.
- 00:21:46.818 --> 00:21:48.420
- That speaks volumes right there.
- 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:51.156
- Because they knew they weren't willin' to go after a lion or a
- 00:21:51.156 --> 00:21:53.291
- Bear and deal with those situations, but david was.
- 00:21:53.291 --> 00:21:59.431
- And so he says, "'when a, a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb
- 00:21:59.431 --> 00:22:03.201
- From the flock, i go after it with a club and take the lamb
- 00:22:03.201 --> 00:22:07.172
- From its mouth.
- 00:22:07.172 --> 00:22:09.875
- If the animal turns on me, i catch it by the jaw
- 00:22:09.875 --> 00:22:13.512
- And club it to death.'"
- 00:22:13.512 --> 00:22:18.383
- So as far as he was concerned, this nine-foot
- 00:22:18.383 --> 00:22:22.354
- Overgrown individual does not intimidate me,
- 00:22:22.354 --> 00:22:27.292
- Because you know what?
- 00:22:27.292 --> 00:22:28.860
- If i can deal with a bear and i can deal with a lion, i'm good.
- 00:22:28.860 --> 00:22:36.835
- He says, "'i've done this to both lions and bears, and i'll
- 00:22:36.835 --> 00:22:41.706
- Do it to this pagan philistine, too, for he has defied the
- 00:22:41.706 --> 00:22:50.315
- Armies of the living god!
- 00:22:50.315 --> 00:22:54.619
- The lord who saved me from the claws--'"
- 00:22:54.619 --> 00:22:58.423
- My goodness. in his private time, he had a revelation.
- 00:22:58.423 --> 00:23:03.495
- He had a flashback of what god did for him
- 00:23:03.495 --> 00:23:07.432
- Out in the shepherd and in the field.
- 00:23:07.432 --> 00:23:10.669
- He thought about that.
- 00:23:10.669 --> 00:23:12.437
- He says, "'the lord who saved me from the claws of the lion and
- 00:23:12.437 --> 00:23:18.243
- Saved me from the bear, he'll save me from this philistine.'"
- 00:23:18.243 --> 00:23:27.285
- David saw victory in his private life.
- 00:23:27.285 --> 00:23:31.957
- He began to get before god and spend time with god, and know
- 00:23:31.957 --> 00:23:38.163
- His covenant with god.
- 00:23:38.163 --> 00:23:41.199
- He reminded himself of what god had done.
- 00:23:41.199 --> 00:23:44.503
- And then as a result, it caused him to have courage to face the
- 00:23:44.503 --> 00:23:49.407
- Hardship, to face the difficult giant, to face what seemed
- 00:23:49.407 --> 00:23:54.346
- To be intimidating.
- 00:23:54.346 --> 00:23:57.349
- And so he says, "he'll save me."
- 00:23:57.349 --> 00:24:00.085
- He'll save me!
- 00:24:00.085 --> 00:24:02.287
- You gotta make up in your mind, god will save me!
- 00:24:02.287 --> 00:24:04.856
- God will deliver me.
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- God will heal me.
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